Christine Hutcheson, October Mover of the Month

✨The best part of our ONLINE Studio is being able to reconnect with clients like Christine Hutcheson.✨

Christine has been a part of our community since 2015 but she left San Francisco and moved to Minneapolis in 2017. We are so grateful to have her 'back' and wanted her to share her story. ️

Christine's story:
My main passion is skiing and 10 years ago I was told that I needed back surgery and should never ski again. Instead I found gyro and it's opened up my back and my whole body in a way that nothing else could. Not only do I ski regularly, I have no back pain, I have new found flexibility in my back and gyro has completely changed how I feel about my overall health and mobility.

I'm athletic, but dislike a gym environment where you are 'working out' just to work out. I have always preferred movement for fun - biking, dancing, walking, skiing, playing sports with friends. My body was always tightly wound, tight hamstrings, tight hips, stiff lower back, stiff upper shoulders and neck. I just thought that was my body and that's how it was always going to be.

I tried yoga, but found it oddly competitive and not relaxing or fulfilling, but I think I intuitively knew I needed something more than just stretching, I needed a movement practice.

Gyro has changed my body and it will always be in my life. There's something about the gyro high that is impossible to replicate and hard to explain, but I know it shows. Someone recently saw me just after an online zoom class and remarked "Wow, you are glowing."

The Arch and Curl series on the handles, that's where I always find the gyro high. After being in online only classes for months, it was the thing I missed the most and felt so good in my body once I was back in the gyro studio in Minneapolis. There's just that little extra something that you get on the handles that is different than in GYROKINESIS®. But I do love the GK classes as well, especially the Awakening of the Senses. And the jump stretch board, and the hamstrings... I love it all because it all feels good. 

My job is on a computer every day and gyro definitely helps to counter against the computer work and open areas of tightness. Joyce was my instructor at a Pilates studio on Polk Street, when she moved full time to The Seed Center I had to follow, my body missed gyro!

The one bright side for me to the pandemic has been the ability to reconnect with the amazing group at the Seed Center in the online classes. I'm so grateful to be able to take gyro again with Nina, Charley and Joyce.

❤️We are so grateful to our movers and our cherished Seed Center Community!